Is it really the end of the road for independent bloggers? In my opinion, independent blogging is still alive and well, it's just that we always impose it with some self-righteous notions.
Blog ≠ Microblog
In almost all the talk about the decline of blogging, microblogging is used as an example, saying that the number of users of microblogging is so and so, and conversely, blogging is so and so, so we come to the same conclusion.
It's true that microblogs, represented by foreign twitter and domestic Sina Weibo, are a new thing that is developing very fast, with a huge user base and a very fast spread. However, in my opinion, microblogging can't replace blogging after all, it's like a snack that can be eaten at any time, but it can't replace the main meal of blogging.
Because the depth of blogging and the precipitation of thinking can never be compared to micro blogging.
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Quantity ≠ Quality
It is true that the overall number of blogs has a great decline, which is not only the impact of micro blogs, including facebook and other social networking sites, a large number of young people give up blogs and into the arms of social networking sites, but this does not equal the decline in the quality of blogs, on the contrary, the big waves, left behind are a senior hobby this and excellent blogs.
For example, moonlight blog, niche software, fried eggs, Tianyahaigao and so on, are the more the development of the quality of the higher, the more readers. Of course, there are some excellent blogs closed, such as may bar, such as the morning bell twilight drum and so on, but the former is because of the closure of the reason, the latter is because of personal work reasons, and not by other impact.
This is like the previous hundred group war, we have been screaming the golden age of group-buying, and with the competition some small and medium-sized group-buying sites have closed, we say the end of group-buying to the end, in fact, this is just a natural survival of the fittest, group-buying or that group-buying, too cold and too hot are considered to be caused by, and now is just back to a reasonable position.
RSS feeds?
As for Nings' use of Feedsky and Shrimpcatcher as evidence of the end of blogging, it's a bit far-fetched. The rise of Google Reader and Xu Yirong's move to Meilishu caused the shrimp catching, for example, another RSS reader, Fresh Fruit, is holding on to its daily supply of one pawn.
Feedsky's topic ads have indeed stopped for a long time, which is also related to the Internet environment in China, and it's not surprising that Feedsky's service has become less stable without revenue.
It is worth mentioning that the number of blogs is decreasing, but the word-of-mouth value of blogs is not decreasing, and the demand of advertisers is not decreasing, so the advertising opportunities for the remaining good blogs are increasing, for example, the newly opened Nafneng may be interested in such opportunities.
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As a blogger with 5 years of blogging age, although with the growth of age, the understanding of all aspects are very different, although in the process of blogging has encountered many difficulties, although it is a thing with almost no material reward, but, all the way down, and will do their best to persist.
The same goes for the blogger, whose role will never be annihilated, even if it doesn't return to its former glory.